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Date:      Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:01:15 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Cc:        lars.eggert@gmx.net
Subject:   Re: Freevo port (TESTING REQUIRED).
Message-ID:  <20040621100115.GE66944@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <8B8F1627-C369-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>
References:  <20040621070848.GA78206@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> <8B8F1627-C369-11D8-9250-00039312D914@fillmore-labs.com>

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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:58:28AM +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Volker Stolz wrote:
> 
> >[...]
> >Please check if this could be encoded in the dependencies somehow...it 
> >might
> >be possible to (ab)use CONFLICTS for this, but that might be over the 
> >top.
> 
> I would strongly advise against using CONFLICTS as a kind of 
> (anti-)dependency.
> If you require certain version of a package, use pkg-req or pkg-install 
> for
> that, possibly calling pkg_info. Or we could cook some new dependency
> scheme up, although this might take some time.

You're right, I completely forgot about pkg-req.
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